Today in our series, "Platicas de la Vida/Talks about Life" we talk about how our emotions affect us. Many of us are uncomfortable with our emotions. Emotional wellbeing depends on acknowledging all of our feelings and can lead to enhanced compassion for ourselves and others. The poet Naomi Shihab Nye said, "Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing."